This is in conjunction with my other topic “Blue screen of death whenever I boot up”, but I wanted to start a new one coz this is going specifically into the virus side of it, coz I know 100% its a virus. I managed to access the infected HDD using my other PC and I went into the /data/log folder of Avast! and I viewed the “Warning.txt” file. I found the data when the PC went down (14.11.05) and found a number of entries on that day. Here are a few:
Sign of “Trivial-38-D” has been found in “C:\Program Files\Windows NT\hypertrm.exe” file.
Sign of “Trivial-38-D” has been found in “C:\WINDOWS\system32\ntdll.dll” file.
Sign of “Trivial-38-D” has been found in “C:\WINDOWS\SYSTEM32\KERNEL32.DLL” file.
Sign of “Trivial-38-D” has been found in “C:\WINDOWS\system32\SHELL32.dll” file.
Thats just a few. Each time though its the same virus. Does ANYONE know what this virus does. I checked Avast!, Trend Micro, Symantec, Bullguard, and found no info about it. Only that it was there once. I found some info on Trivial-39 and it said its a MS-DOS virus but it didnt say how to defeat it or what it does.
So, my plead is: can anyone give me info bout this virus, as much as they can, so that I know where I am at and what Im looking at, whether or not I can get my HDD back or is it unsavable, as I dont particularly want to reformat it. Thx for any info guys.
At least these three files are necessary for boot the computer.
The 1st and the last one could be, maybe, deleted at Safe Mode.
The 2nd could be ‘restored’ by avast! Chest… I hope.
Well, I’d suggest to try. It may be possible that avast! installation got somehow corrupted… it’s strange, but I find it rather unlikely that a DOS virus would be able to infect the main Windows system files.
How do I uninstall it tho? I cant get into the Windows interface at all so I cant go to Add/Remove programs so I cant get rid of it. Is it a DOS virus then? Do you know anything about the virus?
Ah, sorry, I didn’t read the first post carefully enough.
If you can’t boot the OS, then uninstalling avast! (even if it were possible) would hardly help. I’m afraid reinstalling the OS (or possibly repairing from the installation CD?) would be the best thing to do. If the system files were corrupted, they have to be replaced by the originals.
Ye, thats what EVERYONE has been telling me Is there a way of just installing the Windows files again though, without getting rid of the stuff in the /Program Files folder and My documents, etc?
Overinstallation can solve the problem and you won’t lose your programs, settings, data, files, etc.
Just choose ‘Repair’ installation of Windows and install ‘over’ the old installation.